To be eligible for the postseason, teams must have a multi-year score of at least 930. UCLA’s basketball program had better get its problems solved, quickly. — Jon Wilner.

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Hot off the Hotline

• Are the Pac-12 media rights worth $5 billion on the open market? Thanks to the sale of Fox’s Regional Sports Networks, we have a means of roughly estimating the value of Pac-12 content. And in this Hotline exercise, we didn’t get to $5 billion.

• Our post-spring look at Pac-12 football is underway with an assessment of the South division: What happened during the spring and what’s next for each team? (Utah was, and remains, the heavy favorite.)

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Huddle Up

• UCLA is courting quarterback Colson Yankoff, the redshirt freshman who spent the past year at Washington but has entered the transfer portal. Yankoff will visit Westwood this weekend.

• The Oregonian is examining Oregon’s depth chart in position-by-position fashion. Here’s a look at the centers, led by Jake Hanson.

• Defensive lineman Nathaniel James had no intention of committing to Washington State when he visited campus in April. But that Pullman magic took over.

Money Matters

• CalBearsMaven got its hands on coach Justin Wilcox’s new contract, and the increased compensation reflects a legitimate financial commitment by the university: Wilcox will collect an average of $3.2 million per year if he stays for five years. The retention bonuses are significant, which makes sense: The Bears really want Wilcox to stick around.

Dirty Play

Content on the college basketball corruption scandal …

• The fate of the final federal trial is with the jury. In closing arguments made Monday by the defense, Sean Miller was again a central figure. CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander wrote from the scene: “Miller’s name was infused into the proceedings once more; you can make an easy argument that, outside of those who have been charged in this case, no one’s reputation has been damaged more than Miller’s.”

Looking Ahead

• The next installment in our football recruiting series: the Phoenix suburbs are oozing top prospects, but the Wildcats and Sun Devils (and Pac-12 in general) have struggled to keep the top players at home.

• May is money month on the Hotline. Expect a series of articles and columns on the fiscal side at the conference and campus levels. (Our breakdown of the Pac-12’s open-market valuation was merely the first of many.)

• We assessed the South division in its post-spring state. Our look at the North is next.

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

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